Class Notes

• Script Programming
• Operating System Interface
• Program Execution
• User Related Tasks
• Files and Directories
• Interprocess Communication

We will cover many of the chapters listed here, but not in the order given at the beginning of the semester. This page will be updated as the semester progresses.

Notes

• Do Your Homework
• Background
  • Chapter 1 History and Standards
  • Chapter 2 Fundamental Concepts
    • Kernel and Processes
  • Chapter 3 System Programming Concepts
    • System Calls
    • Command Line Arguments
    • Example Code
• Processes
  • Chapter 6 Processes
    • Chapter 6
    • Example Code
  • Part of Chapter 23, 24, 25, 26
    • Suspending processes
    • Forking processes
    • Exiting processes
    • Waiting for Children
    • Exec
    • Example Code
• Files and Directories
  • Chapter 4
    • File I/O: the Universal I/O Model
    • open
    • close, read, write, lseek
    • Code for 4.
  • Part of chapter 44, Pipes and dup
    • Code for 44.
  • Chapter 5 File I/O: Further Details
    • Chapter 5
    • Code for this section.
  • File Types and Attributes
    • Chapters 14, 15, 18, ...
    • Preliminary Work
    • stat
    • Finish 15
    • Hard and Symbolic Links
    • Directories
    • Code for this section.
• Users
  • Chapter 8 Users and Groups
  • Crypt
  • Chapter 9 Process Credentials
  • Code for this section.
• Script Programming
  • A Task I had to do
  • Python
    • Getting Started
    • More Structures
    • Systems Programming Stuff
    • An Example
    • Python Packages
    • Code for this section.
  • Bash
• Threads
  • Chapter 29 Threads Introduction
  • Chapter 30 Thread Synchronization
  • Chapter 31 Thread Safety and Per-thread storage
• Chapter 10 time
• Signals
  • Chapter 20 signals
  • Chapter 21 Signal handlers
• Inter-process Communications
  • Chapters 43 through 61
• Additional Topics
  • Chapter 23 Timers
  • Chapter 37 Daemons
  • Chapter 13 File I/O Buffering
  • Chapter 14 File Systems
  • Chapter 28 Program Execution